Table Of ContentLearning Modern Assyrian Language ةثٌدحلا ةٌروشلاا ةؽللا ملّعت
Learning Modern
Assyrian Language
اَٗكَطي
اَٗدَض اَؾََِسَِا اَعَُّطد
Dialects
Chaldo-Syrio-Assyrian
ملعح
تثَدحلا تَرىشلاا تغللا
ثبجهل
ةيروثا - ةينايرس - ةينادلك
Authors
Matti Phillips Khoshaba Al-Bazi
MATFL
&
Widad Paulis I.
Master of Arts:
Education & Technology
Personal Computer Publications
1821 Buckingam Drive,
Salinas, Ca 93906,
USA
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To
ALL MOTHERS
including mine
Afifat Mansour Abdullah
The Jacobite mother lullabies in Assyrian to have me sleep in my crib peacefully
This book is distributed
for free
on
the Memorial
of
My Mother
اَعَُّطد اَِِٗستََد
رَطؾ اَعُؾ
صَبد . م ٌَٗظ
The cradle of any language
is the mother
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ملأا
تاؽللا دهم
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Introduction
The book of “Learning Modern Assyrian Language ” explains how the system of the
gender works in the Chaldo-Syrio-Assyrian Dialects all over Mesopotamia (Iraq).
Nouns are classified into categories : Derivative or concrete, showing 2 types on the
basis whether they allow derivation or not. The Memated Nouns are very helpful in
deriving accusative verbs , verbs that “make” or “get” or “have” others do the
action of the verb.
ex., khalta Vs makhalta
X
اَٗطََقا اَٗطََكَظ
eat X serve food to others
Adjectives are also explained in details and how they convey various meanings
whether inherited by nature, or nurtured, or acquired from the environments and
social communities.
This mainly grammar book focuses on the complex sentences and how the sub
clauses are connected within one unit thought, defining the various clauses as
notions, functions, and modes.
Verbs are also included so that learners may use then for communication in their
daily conversations.
The possessives are also presented in a very precise clear tables so that the learners
will not confuse for stable knowledge learning, an effect of the Assyrian language
usage on the Iraqi dialect language which is very prominent and clear.
Widad I. Paulis , my wife, has helped me a lot regarding her Chaldean dialect, and
she was a great help for me to write down the comparisons that the reader may find
interesting as s/he comes across the pages of this interesting and unique book of this
Mesopotamian language of the Indigenous people of Iraq. .
I hope that this book will serve your needs as language for social communication or
will assist you in your academy needs at the levels of the universities and research
articles.
ٌٌبََ
صَبد ؽِسكًطًق ٌَٗظ
Matti Phillips Khoshaba Al-Bazi 1821 buckingham Drive
MATFL Salinas, CA, 93906
Associate Professor USA
2012
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Content تاٌوتحملا
لولاا لص فلا .1
ةمٌدقلا ةٌروشلااو ةٌرامسملا ؾورحلا
6 تادرفملا
11 دادعلاا
ًناثلا لص فلا .1
ةثٌدحلا ةٌروشلااو ةٌمارلاا ؾورحلا
21 تاوصلآا جراخم
12 ًتوصلا زاهجلا
26 مٌخفتلا
18 توصلا ةٌعون نكاوس
18 روهجم \ سومهم
21 ةجودزم \ ةلٌوط \ ةرٌصق ةلع تاوصا
ثلاثلا لص فلا .2
22 ةللادلا ءامسا
23 ةماع
76 ملع
80 ةٌعامج
81 ةبارق
83 ءامسلاا رٌؽصت
43 ناسنلاا ةاٌح لحارم
43 ةٌسنجو سنجو قرع
33 ةمجرتلاو ناٌدا
34 ةنهم
35 مسجلا ءاضعأ
36 ءاٌحلااو تاناوٌحلا
37 رعشو دلج
48 ةٌبام تاناوٌح
38 ةٌرب تاناوٌح
38 ؾحاوزو تارشح
45 نجاودو روٌط
41 تاتابنو ةعارز
41 تلاكأ
41 نوإم
42 تاراهبو نوهد
42 ةدّعو تاودأ
42 ةفاظن
43 زبخ
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44 روطف
45 ءادؼ
45 ءاشع
45 برش
46 خبطملا ًف
59 ثاثآ
60 ةٌامحو ةحلسأ
61 ةبفدتو ران
61 مون ةفرؼ
62 تلاصاومو لقن
63 ةهكاف
65 ةعٌبط
67 تاٌعامتجإ
68 ةبلطو سرادم
71 تاحلاطصإو تارمتإم
73 ةملاسو ةحص
75 داصتقإو قوس
75 تاوصاو تاكرح
ملع ءامسا
65 صاخشا
65 ندم
65 راهنأ
66 لابج
67 نادلب
67 تاٌباضفو دبارج
68 تارازو
75 ةٌعامج ءامسا
71 ةبارق
72 ءامسلاا رٌؽصت
عبارلا لص فلا .3
75 عمجلا ماظن
سماخلا لص فلا .4
85 تاف ص .5
سداسلا لص فلا .6
ةدقعملا ةلمجلا
115 ةرشابملا رٌؼ ةلمجلا
111 ةٌضرؽلا ةلمجلا
112 ةٌببسلا ةلمجلا
113 ةٌضقانتلا ةلمجلا
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114 ةجٌتنلا ةلمج
115 ةٌطرشلا ةلمجلا
116 ةٌنمزلا ةلمجلا
عباسلا لص فلا .7
111 لوهجملل ًنبملا
نماثلا لص فلا .8
113 لاعفلاا
عساتلا لصفل ا .15
125 لادلا ؾباظو
رشاعلا لصفل ا .11
126 كلمتلا
رشع يداحلا لصفل ا .11
128 تاحلاطصلااو ةسٌنكلا
رشع ًناثلا لصفلا .12
133 لاحلا \ ؾرظلا
رشع ثلاثلا لصفلا .13
153 رٌباعتلاو ةٌفٌظولا تادرفملا
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لولاا لصفلا
اَؿَظدَن اَّؾٍَ
ا ُٔ ُ ٔد اََٗسَٗا
ةمٌدقلا ةٌروشلاا ةباتكلا
ةٌرامسملا
Chapter One
Cuneiform Assyrian
ةمدقملا
لوصإ ( ـب ؾرعٌ امب لٌصافت عم "ةٌروشلاا ةؽللا دعاوق" باتك رسرٌم ًب يا لٌبومص روسٌفوربلا رشن دقل
ملاكلا ةؽل لثمت ًكل راكفأ مٌهافم ىلا كاذنآ ةؽللا اوروط نٌٌرموسلا ناب انل نٌبٌ باتكلا اذه . تادرفملا ) سٌردت
رشبلا ًنب ىلا ًاقحلا اهوملس دقلو مهسفنا نٌٌروشلااو نٌٌلبابلاو نٌٌرموسلا نم نٌدفارلا دلاب بعشل لوادتملا
.ةراضحو مٌقو ةفاقثك
Professor Samuel A.B. Mercer published a book named” Assyrian Grammar with
Chrestomathy and Glossary” , a book that in fact shows that Sumerians developed the
ideograms to represent the spoken language of the Mesopotamia people as Assyrians,
Babylonians, and Sumerians ; and then they handed all that to the race of human
beings for education, culture, and civilization .
نم لولاا نرقلا ةٌادبل ةدٌرف ةؽلك ترمتساو .م .ق ةنس 2555 تمدختسا دق اهددصب نحن ًتلا ةٌروشلاا ةؽللا
اطاوش ىلع شاع يذلا هتاذ بعشلا لبق نم ةٌمارلاا ةٌبابفللاا ةرتفلا كلت للاخ تركتبا ثٌح ةٌحٌسملا اٌجم
ةٌرامسملا لحم تّلح ًاٌجٌردت ةٌدجبلاا اهفورحو .م .ق 245 ًلاوح نٌٌقٌنٌفلاب اوفرعو طسوتملا ضٌبلاا رحبلا
.ةباتك
The Assyrian language per se was used as early as 3000 B.C. and continued as the only
written language until the first century before the Christian era. The Aramaic
Alphabets, since around that date, were invented by the same people who were living
on the sea shore of Mediterranean sea (Phoenicians) around 350 B.C., characters that
gradually supplanted the cuneiform style of writing.
ىلع ، اهنكلو ضعبلا ًعدٌّ امك ةقٌلخلا هجو ىلع نم تفتخا ةؽللا ناب ًنعٌ لا ةؽلل ةٌدجبلاا ؾورحلا راكتبا نإ
ملاعلا تاؽل ىلا لخدتو روطتتل تقب نٌٌروشلااو نٌٌلبابلاو نٌٌرموسلا لبق نم ةٌكحملا ةؽللا هذه ، ًامامت سكعلا
. ةٌبوروا ودنلاا ىرخلاا ةٌبرؽلاو ةٌنٌتلالاو ةٌماسلاك ةفلتخملا
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The invention of the symbols of the written language does not mean that the language
disappeared from the face of the earth as some people claim, but, on the contrary, the
spoken language of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians remain to develop and
enter into other languages in the world i.e., the Semitics, and the Latin origin and ones
of the Indo European as well.
ةٌنٌطلا حاوللااو ماخرلا ىلع ةروفحملا صوصنلل مزلاملا )وحنلا ( دعاوقلا مزناكٌمو بٌكارتلاو تادرفملا نإ
( نٌرهنلا دلاب نا ىلع ػماد لٌلد ةٌروشلاا ةرطٌسلا تحت ةعقاو قطانم ًف بٌقنتلا لامعا ًف اهٌلع رثع ًتلاو
.ةٌرشبلا ةراضحلل دهم ًه ًاقح )نٌدفارلا
The vocabulary, the syntax, and the mechanism of the Grammar found in the texts of
the inscriptions on stones and clays excavated in the land under Assyrian control are a
concrete testimony that Mesopotamia is the cradle of civilizations.
تادرفملا نع رسرٌم روسٌفوربلا هنودو هتبث ام ىلع ًاٌلك دمتعت امنإ لاقملا ىوحف ًف رهظت ًتلا تامولعملاو
ًف ةٌقابلا ةٌحلا تادرفملا نع لٌق امب ةقلاع هل امنإ اهٌلع تفضا ام لكو ةٌربعلا ةؽللاب ةقٌثو ةقلاع اهل ًتلا
ًف ًاقحلا تذخا ًتلا ةٌقٌنٌفلا ؾورحلاب ًاٌلاح ةبوتكم ةرٌخلااو ةثٌدحلا ةٌروشلاا ةؽللاو ةرصاعملا ةٌبرعلا ةؽللا
. ةٌمارلاا ةؽللا مسا خٌراتلا
The information in this article is mainly based on what Professor Mercer has written
on the vocabulary that is strongly connected to Hebrew. The only addition I made is to
link what had been said to what vocabulary still is live in Arabic and Assyrian language
of today. I hope this article will be a start to further analyses of morphology and
Grammar of the Assyrian language found in both Modern Arabic language and Neo
Assyrian written in Phoenician letters named later (Aramaic).
: عطاقملاو ةٌرامسملا ةٌروشلاا ةؽللا
لا ةرهاظلا هذهو دحاولا عطقملا ًف لصفنم ؾرحب لٌوطلا ةلعلا بتكٌ ثٌح ًادج ةٌعطقم ةمٌدقلا ةٌروشلاا ةؽللا
لا ثٌح قلؽم عطقم ًف لٌوط ةّلع توص دجوٌ لا هناو امك موٌلا اذه ىلا ةثٌدحلا ةٌروشلااو ةٌبرعلا اهدلقت تلاز
. )1511 اباشوخ و 1552 اباشوخ عجار ( ةثٌدحلا ةٌروشلااو ةٌبرعلا نٌتؽللا ًف ةٌلج ةرهاظلا هذه تلاز
Cuneiform Assyrian and Syllables:
The language is highly made up of syllables in which a long vowel was represented
separately as a vowel of the syllable, a process that is still doable in both Modern
standard (MSA) Arabic and Modern Assyrian language. There was no long vowel in the
closed syllables, a phenomenon that is still of value in Modern Assyrian language
(Khoshaba, 2003 and Khoshaba, 20110).
Vocabulary
تادرفملا
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ؾقوت نودبو درطضم لكشب تروطت روشأو لبابو رموس دلاب ًف بعشلا لبق نم ةٌكحملا ةؽللاف ًافلس انركذ امك
ةفٌفط تارٌؽت عم نلاا دحلو ةنس 5555 ذنم ًموٌلا انلوادت ًف اهنم رٌثكلا مدختسن انلز لا ببسلا اذهلو تمت ملو
مؼر تاملكلا كلت مهفن انلز لاف ةرصاعملا ةٌبرعلاو ةثٌدحلا ةٌروشلاا ةؽللاب علاطإ ىلع انك ولف . ركذلا قحتست لا
تاجهلو ةددعتم تاؽل ىلا نٌدفارلا دلاب ًف ةٌلصلاا ةؽللا روطت نا ودبٌ ذإ زومرلاو موهفملا ػٌصب تبتك اهنوك
مهفت دعت ملو the Assyrian language got confounded ةنعللا اهتباصؤف "تلبلبت" اهنؤب تفَ صِ وُ ةقرفتم
......... هتؽلب ًأدب هتراضح نم ًاٌلاخ بعشلا اذه كرٍ تُو دلابلا لها لبق نم
)1811 ( ماع رسرٌم روسٌفوربلا اهعضو ًتلا ةٌرامسملا ةٌروشلاا تاراشلااو تادرفملا نم ةمباق ترتخا هٌلع
.ةٌروشلاا ةؽللا دعاوق هباتك ًف
As mentioned above the spoken language by the people of Sumer, Babylon, and
Assyria develops but never stops or dies, a reason that we still use many of those
words with little or even not any worth mentioning changes from 6000 years ago.This
Mesopotamian language changes into many languages and dialects to a point that
people do not understand each other, it was, therefore, called confounded and its
people never understand each other. In this way people were ostracized from their
civilization and especially their language. People of this nation are still victims of that
given jinx and they live its consequences to the present day…….
Linguistically talking Modern Arabic Language, the Modern Assyrian, and the New
Modern Hebrew are the continuation of the same language , of course with changes,
and people of all three languages understand what those words do mean, though
expressed and written in ideographs and Cuneiform.
For this purpose, I have selected many words that I know from the lists and signs that
Professor Mercer (1921) has put in his book as Assyrian Grammar.
: بٌترتلا بسح ةٌزٌلكنلااب ًناعملاو ةٌبرعلاو ةثٌدحلا ةٌروشلااو ةٌرامسملا ةٌروشلاا ةؽللا صخت هاندا ةمباقلا
The list of the Cuneiform / Modern Assyrian / Arabic and English meaning in that
order :
Cuneiform symbols Aramaic fonts Arabic English
Assyrian Assyrian
1. nakasu صقو cut off
إََهع
nkasa nuks
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2. zeru زَش\ اَؾََش عرز seed /
descendent
zro / zrota zraa’
3. ilu \ الله God
اَرَطَا طيا
i:l / alaha allah
4. napastu \ سفن soul / life
اَػَكع اَّهَع
napas \ napsha nafs
5. sumeilu لامش left
اَط اَعَغ
sumaala shamaal
6. reshu سأر beginning/
)اَِاٍَ( اَّؾٍَ
resha raas head
7. puu وف mouth
اَظِسق
pooma foo
8. Lishanu ناسل tongue
اَعَُّط
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